Beach renourishment

So what is one to do? Eh? Swim upstream against the potential, unrealized desires of Mother Nature? Lax back, assume that the sky will fall even if it is not at this moment?

Do we throw away our capabilities to restore? Or use those dollars to other means?

Having fought this fought on Cape San Blas, restoration underway, results not yet determined to time

http://www.savethecape.com/

I found it to be intolerable to refuse the fought.

I've seen tons of sand blown into Eastern Lake from the west side over the years and natural sand from the east side. The County dumped and dredged sand certainly did not help the lake. Glad that has stopped, at least for now. I appreciate every day I can walk on the beach on real naturally placed sand and not processed and sculpted renourished sand. It just feels icky to me. Finding places that weren't bubbified with a lot of scraping is a challenge in some places. Until the public beach access issue is resolved, publicly funded renourishment and scraping should stop. Maybe the high price of gas will stop those tractors on the beach in their tracks.

As I have stated before I am in favor of beach renourishment. I really need an answer to a question about public access and private beach that seems to be a part of the renourishment issue. I am not understanding exactly what public beach entails? What apart from the public and deeded beach accesses is needed or desired? I do understand about the public being protected from developers totally eliminating people's access to the beach by building wall to wall condos and hotels. That there needs to be access in the new areas of development. As far as I can tell along 30-A there are many public and deeded beach accesses. How is the public today not being respected?

So what is one to do? Eh? Swim upstream against the potential, unrealized desires of Mother Nature? Lax back, assume that the sky will fall even if it is not at this moment?

Do we throw away our capabilities to restore? Or use those dollars to other means?

Having fought this fought on Cape San Blas, restoration underway, results not yet determined to time

http://www.savethecape.com/

I found it to be intolerable to refuse the fought.

Are you saying this is a good idea?

Cape San Blas is a barrier island. If you're not familiar with what a barrier island is or its natural purpose please do some research. 50 years ago I can understand building on them, but with the current knowledge of what they are and how they act it is futile to try and rebuild a barrier island.

I already have an answer to my question about the public vs private beach issue. I completely understand now. No one seems to be shy about calling beachfront people greedy so I won't be shy about expressing my opinion. Most of the people I know who have a house on the beach worked hard for what they have and they saved and were able to purchase a piece of property when it was affordable. Of course it will once again become very affordable if a big storm hits - because without renourishment no one will want to invest in south walton. Even the tourists will be going to other beaches. What then?

Are you saying this is a good idea?

Cape San Blas is a barrier island. If you're not familiar with what a barrier island is or its natural purpose please do some research. 50 years ago I can understand building on them, but with the current knowledge of what they are and how they act it is futile to try and rebuild a barrier island.

So 'tis my point.

30 years working for the Corps of Engineers and my experience with beach renourishment is its a function of money and time. Money to do it and anybodies guess at how long it takes for it to become a failure. But it will fail. That's why dredging for harbors is a routine maintenance item.

So 'tis my point.

Sorry, read your post wrong.

30 years working for the Corps of Engineers and my experience with beach renourishment is its a function of money and time. Money to do it and anybodies guess at how long it takes for it to become a failure. But it will fail. That's why dredging for harbors is a routine maintenance item.

Quite righty-right, Mr. ACoE, no doubt about it. Note the term restoration. I see this much like conservation, a returning to a past state not a permanent solution to the foibles of Mother Nature.

Again, I remit, do we walk away from this chore because it is not and end-all solution?


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If only the NEW Vistors could see those very dunes and small cottages of the old Grayton they would cry to know how wonderous it really was! I got the chance to stay for a week, only once, and the next time after a storm it was gone! Heart break! Thanks for you words,Diane

beacheart--not to be rude, but just an observation from a different location of beach world. At Gulf Shores Al. I personally when to work atleast twice a week with DH, who at the time of Ivan was incharge of redirecting the sand back to the beach. I can say truthfully that beach restoration is not as easy or as precise as some would make it seem. Money or NOT! In our case a burden NOT on the BFowners but all of us as citizens! As a few have said already, nature and GOD do the best to put things right! To me, IMHO, the beach will never belong to anyone, no matter how hard they work! Just think about what kind of world we would have if Private started popping up on all the public places the rich had managed to BUY! Hope I didn't offen anyone, I'm still on my first cup of coffee .